Standing in front of the classroom I was in a state of stupefaction. I had just turned around after writing and explaining a distinction between two different idiomatic phrases that apparently, on the surface, meant the same identical thing to my students. Why do you think that, I asked the class of studious pupils all focused on me at the same exact moment waving their hands yelling and shouting, smiling and laughing .

"What is it, " I asked warily," do you think I can read your minds? "

It seems that one of them had taped a donkey tail on my backside when I was turned toward the blackboard writing my Extra Special Point but I wasn't aware of nor had I noticed the new appendage at the time and.....